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born ca. 1618, Groot Holum, Ostfriesland
died 17 February 1700/1, Hurley, New York
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born in Amsterdam [?], probably ca. 1635
died 6 September 1714, Hurley, New York
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Rachel DeWitt
MVDW 9
TGE 9. viii. Family 7.
Birth Date - Death Date (after 1698; Find-A-Grave says 7 January 1745)
born in Kingston or Hurley, New York
(no baptism recorded)
Presumed buried in Kingston, New York; possibly buried in Hurley or Mombaccus (Rochester, Ulster County)
See NYGBS Record Vol. 84 No. 4, October 1953, p. 233, for a citation from the Bogardus–Van Tine Bible noting her passing: “174(6?) is our mother in heaven asleep; (died) the 7 of January.” The Bible in 1953 was in the possession of the Holland Society. Further family notes are in the same article.
See Find-A-Grave page on her, not based on an actual known grave location (?)
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Cornelius Bogardus (Jr.)
married 1690
1663 - 13 October 1707
His parents are Cornelius Bogardus (Sr.) and Helen Teller.
Evans (p. 6) writes: “Cornelius Bogardus,
Sr. (b. Sept. 9, 1640, d. 1666), was the son of Anneke Jans by her second husband, Rev. Everardus Bogardus. HelenaTeller (b. 1645) was the eldest daughter of William Teller, who settled in Albany in 1639, moved to New York in 1692, and died there in 1701. After the death of Cornelius Bogardus, Sr., his widow married Francois Rombouts, a noted French merchant of New York City. Cornelius Bogardus, Jr., taught school in Albany in 1700, but soon after went back to Kingston. His wife, Rachel, was living in 1738.”
Complicated story: Anneke Jans was married three times. Rachel marries Cornelius Bogardus, Anneke’s grandson by way of her second husband (Rev. Everardus Bogardus). Rachel’s brother Jan marries Wyntje Kiersted, Anneke’s granddaughter by way of her first husband.
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Helena Bogardus
MVDW 65
TGE 63. i.
baptized 17 April 1692 at Old Dutch Church in Kingston - death date
parents: Cornelis Bogardus, Rachel de Witt
witnesses: Tjerk de Witt, Barbar de Witt
spouse name
Likely: 1712, between 20 November and 4 December, Tobyas van Buuren, j.m., born in Albany, and Helena Bogardus, j.d., born in Kingston.
They baptize Ariaantjen 11 April 1714, Cornelis 18 December 1715, Rachel 10 February 1717,
Coenrad 25 October 1719, Gerrit 7 Jan 1722, Helena 24 May 1724, Margrietjen 24 December 1732
burial location
Jennekin Bogardus
MVDW 66
TGE 64. ii.
baptized May 1694 - death date
birthplace (baptized 13 May at New York City per TGE p. 9)
marriage date and location
burial location
Barbara Bogardus
MVDW 67
TGE 65. iii.
baptized 15 December 1695 - death date
birthplace (baptized Kingston; Evans p. 9 says 16 December)
marriage date and location
burial location
Cornelis Bogardus
MVDW 68
TGE 66. iv.
baptized 8 January 1699 - 1759
birthplace (baptized Kingston)
married 18 February 1721 Katharine Tudor at location
burial location
Rachel Bogardus
MVDW 69
TGE 67. v.
baptized 27 April 1701 - death date
birthplace (baptized Albany per Evans p. 9)
marriage date and location
burial location
Catrina Bogardus
MVDW 70
TGE 68. vi. (as Catharina)
baptized 29 August 1703 - death date
birthplace (baptized Kingston)
married 24 June 1726 Johannes DeDuyster at location
burial location
Margarita Bogardus
MVDW 71
TGE 69. vii.
baptized 22 September 1705 - death date
birthplace (baptized Kingston)
marriage date and location
burial location
Hendricus Bogardus
MVDW 72
TGE 70. viii.
baptized 28 September 1707 - death date
birthplace (baptized Kingston)
marriage date and location
burial location
Rachel, with Cornelis Bogardus, witnessed the baptism of Thomas Mattysen, son of Mattys Mattysen and Rachel’s sister Tajie de Witt, on 13 October 1689 at the Old Dutch Church in Kingston.
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Notes
She is the fourth daughter named in her father’s 1698 will; he mentions
her husband, Cornelis Bogardus, and subtracts from her standard 1/12 share of his estate the £100 Cornelis owes Tjerck for 1/8 share of a brigantine, which Tjerck sold him. Tjerck goes on to say that of that £100, Rachel and Cornelis’ daughter Barbara should receive 50 pieces of eight (vyftigh stuck van aghten). (The Spanish Peso, a coin worth 8 reales and famously convenient to split into eight roughly uniform pieces, or later “bits,” was minted at ~25.56 grams of silver; conversions to the British pound are difficult, especially since the Bank of England in 1694 had begun to issue paper money in addition to gold guineas, but in 1601 a British silver penny, worth 1/240 of £1, had weighed 0.5 gram. By this measure, £100 would have been worth 12,000 grams of silver, and 50 pieces of eight would have weighed 1,278 grams. As a token of affection, of course, the 50 pieces of eight would have been beyond simple measures of value.) |
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Sources
I’m just beginning to list sources here. Apologies for not being more complete. I will continue to add to this list as I have time. There are many sources of information on the DeWitt family line, some better than others.
Printed sources:
The DeWitt Genealogy: Descendants of Tjereck Claessen DeWitt of Ulster County, New York; compiled by Mary V[eldran] DeWitt (b. 1895) (privately published; no year indicated). This volume includes only names and dates, no attributions or locations or other stories or information are included. It includes nearly 2800 DeWitt descendants, some with more details, some fewer. It also includes some information on spouses and their parents. The laboriously typewritten volume came from years of personal research, often onsite in Ulster County; the current location of notes from this research is not known, but some of them may have gone to the Genealogical Society of Bergen County (New Jersey), where Mary DeWitt grew up and lived much of her life.
Baptismal and Marriage Registers of the Old Dutch Church of Kingston, Ulster County, New York (formerly named Wiltwyck, and often familiarly called Esopus or ’Sopus), for One Hundred and Fifty Years from their commencement in 1660. Transcribed and edited by Roswell Randall Hoes, Chaplain U.S.N., corresponding secretary of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, etc. New York 1891; original publication De Vinne Press, New York; available today from Higginson Book Co., Salem, Mass., 508-745-7170. Detailed information about baptisms has been filled in through the end of 1687, marriages through 1701. More information is available. Records begin 1660. Other baptisms may have taken place in Hurley and other locations nearby; also from time to time itinerant ministers would travel through and perform various rites, not always entered in the books.
This is available online at archive.org.
Thomas Grier Evans, The De Witt Family of Ulster County, New York (reprinted from the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, October 1886), New York: Trow’s Printing and Bookbinding Co., 201-213 East Twelfth Street, 1886. Available online from archive.org.
New York Genealogical & Biographical Society Record, volumes and pages as cited above.
Online sources:
Record of early marriages in the Dutch Reform Church in Manhattan, available in printed form or online
Record of early baptisms in the Dutch Reform Church in Manhattan, available online
English translations of Dutch colonial records, also known as “The Kingston Papers,” available online. These are the Dingman Versteeg translations. The originals are available on microfilm from the Ulster County archivist, who can be found through the same link. A cross-reference indexing the archive pages to the microfilm frames to the pages in the printed translation can be obtained from Donald Lockhart, dlockhart at rcn dot com, who includes an entertaining introduction about the misadventures of the original manuscript records in the 1800s, before they were at last safely ensconced with the Ulster County archives.
Also see The History of Kingston, New York, by Marius Schoonmaker (1888), a volume thick with detail and transcribed original records.
Ulster County, N. Y., Probate Records, In the Office of the Surrogate, and in the County Clerk’s Office at Kingston, N. Y., compiled, abstracted and translation by Gustave Anjou, Ph. D., 1906. Privately published (?) in New York, but available at genealogical libraries (NYPL and others). Subtitle: “A careful abstract and translation of the Dutch and English wills, letters of administration after intestates, and inventories from 1665, with genealogical and historical notes, and list of Dutch and Frisian baptismal names with their English equivalents.” Introduction by Judge A[lphonso] T[rumpbour] Clearwater, LL.D. This is available in reprinted form. Note that there are two distinct volumes included in this work, sometimes combined into one physical book.
Reproduced herein:
Wills of Tjerck Claessen DeWitt and his brother Jan, who died unmarried in Kingston, 1699 (1906 Anjou edition; see link above)
Very cursory look at public records from Albany, NY, regarding Tjerck Claessen DeWitt and possible relatives.
The Peltz Record (1948)
The History of Ulster County, New York
The Oberholtzer Genealogy
Research assistance:
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